Gedling 'listening to protesters'

GEDLING Borough Council has voted through its development strategy to be examined by the Planning Inspector in July.

The strategy includes planned housing developments in areas across the borough, including 1,000 homes in Top Wighay Farm, up to 600 on land north of Papplewick Lane, up to 500 homes at Bestwood Village, up to 1,300 homes at Calverton and up to 330 homes at Ravenshead.

More than 14,000 people gave feedback on the plans, including a joint response from 1,240 residents of Linby, Papplewick and Hucknall.

Concerns expressed, included the impact on the infrastructure, problems with flooding and a lack of consultation.

The council says it will have to find room for 7,250 new homes in the borough by 2028 – a figure based on predicted household growth and migration figures.

But Chris Barnfather, leader of the opposition Conservative group on the council, said the figure was "too high".

He added: "We think the spread of the homes is inequitable, it's far too much based in green-field sites"

Councillor Darrell Pulk, portfolio holder for leisure and development on the council, said the authority had considered all comments while developing its strategy.

6 comments

vox and soraya - Milton Keynes is the only British town which uses the rigid orthogonal principle which I can think of, even then the grid is far from the almost geometrically perfect American efforts.
The Yorkshire Moors have been a National Park for decades so imagine those planning meetings/consultations with residents and parish council representatives about building a city there.

Soraya - I've often wondered about taking the 'Sim City' approach and whether it would work in creating a brand new city from scratch. The opportunities this would create in terms of jobs and housing could potentially be amazing, but obviously subject to the whims of the government of the day, none of whom I'd trust to get it right. It could be left to the minds of planners with a track record of success, but that'd never get off the ground because it wouldn't have that red or blue banner plastered across it.

The government needs to build Britain's first modern city in grid format with infrastructure form scratch rather than as an afterthought - somewhere where there isn't anything remarkable such as the Yorkshire Moors.

This is outrageous. Hucknall and its surrounding community hasn't the infrastructure to cope with Gedling Borough Council's housing development. But Hucknall isn't in Gedling so it's not their problem, they create the extra housing they are under pressure to provide, and some other poor community pays the price.